On the basis of the transcript, Martoma interviewed with Judges Sentelle, Ginsburg, and Randolph on the DC Circuit. However, a law clerk in one judge’s chambers spotted the altered transcript and contacted Harvard Law’s registrar. (My recollection is that HLS transcripts in those days were completed on typewriters, so an HLS grad-turned-law-clerk familiar with HLS transcripts — and tipped off by grades so very high — could probably spot the forgery.) Caught with the altered transcript, Martoma then tried to pass the alteration off as a joke. Shortly thereafter, when one of the DC Circuit judges called to offer him a clerkship, he didn’t answer the call and sent out letters withdrawing his application. Appropriately, the Administrative Board recommended that Martoma be kicked out of school — and he was.